The Nineteenth-century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World

ISBN-13: 9780415623209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

Sara Delamont; Lorna Duffin

Opis

This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the 19th century.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Conspicuous Consumptive: Woman as an Invalid  3. Prisoners of Progress: Women and Evolution  4. Fitness, Feminism and Schooling  5. The Contradictions in Ladies’ Education  6. The Domestic Ideology and Women’s Education  7. George Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft

O autorze

Delamont, Sara; Duffin, Lorna